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Every Ninety Million Miles
(Verse 1)
I built a world on quiet afternoons
Plotted perfect orbits, charted constellations with coffee spoons
The hum was low, the current clean and steady
I never saw the warning light, I guess I wasn't ready
For the shift, the pressure change
A sudden fire, beautifully strange
(Pre-Chorus)
And you said you didn't mean it
A solar wind you couldn't hold inside
You said I should have seen it
You gave me nowhere I could run and hide
(Chorus)
You bent the light around you when you broke
A beautiful disaster with the words you spoke
A million silent particles in flight
That scrambled all my satellites all night
And oh, the beautiful disaster made me blind
Now this radiation in my chest
Is all you left behind
(Verse 2)
I’m tripping breakers just to keep the peace
Rewiring the circuits for a brief release
But every message that I try to send
Hits the charged aurora at the bitter end
It gets corrupted, comes back wrong
Just another verse in this broken song
(Pre-Chorus)
And you said it wouldn’t happen twice
A coronal ejection of the heart
But you don't control the rolling dice
That tear a perfectly good system all apart
(Chorus)
You bent the light around you when you broke
A beautiful disaster with the words you spoke
A million silent particles in flight
That scrambled all my satellites all night
And oh, the beautiful disaster made me blind
Now this radiation in my chest
Is all you left behind
(Bridge)
I can’t put shields around my atmosphere
To stop the poison that you call sincere
The storm is in you, darling, not the sky
And there’s no grounding wire for your kind of lie
So let the polar routes all burn
There are some things you just can't un-learn
(Outro)
Every ninety million miles… you come undone
You find me, every time
You, my catastrophic sun…
The beautiful disaster
Oh, the radiation
All you left behind…
About The Song
"Every Ninety Million Miles" transforms a raw scientific event—a major solar flare causing a radiation storm—into a deeply personal metaphor for being in a relationship with a partner prone to explosive, damaging emotional outbursts. The protagonist isn't just dealing with anger; they're navigating the fallout of a 'coronal ejection of the heart.' The invisible 'particles' from the outburst disrupt the 'satellites' of communication, corrupting every message and leaving a lingering 'radiation' of hurt and mistrust. The title refers to the approximate distance to the sun, framing the partner as a beautiful but catastrophically powerful force, a 'disaster' that bends all light around it. It captures the specific, exhausting feeling of actively trying to hold a world together while it's being scrambled by a force you can't control. The song's soul-pop verses, with a vocal style reminiscent of Teddy Swims, build into a powerful, driving indie-rock chorus, mirroring the slow build of tension and the subsequent emotional explosion.
Production Notes
Vocals: The lead vocal needs to be raw and dynamic. Use a condenser mic like a Neumann U 87 for warmth and clarity. In verses, the vocal should be intimate, almost breathy, with minimal processing. In the chorus, push the vocals into a tube preamp (like a UA 610) for natural grit and compression. Double track the chorus vocals and pan them wide (20L/20R) with the lead remaining center to create an immense sense of space and power.
Instrumentation: The track is built on a driving acoustic guitar (a la 'I Had Some Help' by Post Malone) that is present throughout, providing rhythmic momentum. A vintage, slightly overdriven bassline (Fender P-Bass) should lock in with a heavy, four-on-the-floor kick drum in the chorus. Introduce shimmering, delayed electric guitar lines in the second verse to represent the 'aurora.'
Arrangement: Keep the verses sparse—acoustic, bass, and a simple beat. The pre-chorus should build tension with rising pads and a filtered drum fill. The chorus needs to explode with the full drum kit, wide vocals, and a deep sub-bass. The bridge should strip back to just piano/pads and the lead vocal, creating a moment of raw vulnerability before the final, massive chorus hits.
Mix Automation: Automate a subtle distortion and a wide stereo delay on the lead vocal for the line "bent the light around you" to make it sonically jarring. In the bridge, automate a high-pass filter on the entire mix, which snaps off when the final chorus drops, making the impact feel massive.
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